Resumen de Tracking the social lives of things: biographical insights into Bronze Age pottery in Spain
Pottery has sometimes been compared to a living organism in its cycle of birth, life and death or discard. A biographical approach to an unusual assemblage of pottery from the Late Bronze Age site of Pico Castro in central Spain suggests that they had been used together at a communal feast. The shared social memory that they acquired thereby conferred on them a special status that resulted in their eventual placement in the pit, fine wares and coarse wares together. Thus the varied biographies of the individual vessels- and the individual sherds- eventually converged not only in their discard but in the episodes that preceded it.
